A High Sierras backpacking guide selects his favorite trail gear for heading out into the backcountry—from beanie to shoes. As an overnight backpacking guide in Yosemite, I’ve learned the difference ...

Landry is a Massachusetts-based author, adventurer and community leader. He has written extensively on hiking, outdoor ...

If you’ve touched more copier paper than you have trees lately, if you don’t remember the last time you looked down at your feet and saw dirt instead of concrete, and if you’ve wearily realized that ...

I did not grow up in an outdoorsy family. We spent the occasional summer road-tripping through Colorado, sure, but I was just as likely to spend an entire school break playing Super Nintendo in my ...

When you’re backpacking, you need to carry only the necessities — but since you’ll be trekking out into nature, far from all of the comforts of home, you need to make sure you’re carrying items that ...

More and more folks are swapping hotel stays for tents, fashionable garb for hiking boots, and five-course meals over candlelight for dehydrated concoctions over a campfire. Spending time in the great ...

Backpacking across Africa is much different than exploring any other country or continent. The scenery in Africa is so unique and offers once-in-a-lifetime experiences that North America and Europe ...

The backpacking business permeates the vacation, corporate and judicial arenas. Nature lovers will sign up to be guided on vacations through the mountains. Corporations use backpacking weekends to ...